Discussion
Lamarck's theory of organic evolution is popularly known as :
Answer: A
Lamarck's theory is popularly known as the inheritance of acquired characters.
In his Philosophie Zoologique (1809) Lamarck proposed that organs develop with use and shrink with disuse, and that such changes acquired during an animal's life are passed on to its offspring; the giraffe's long neck is the textbook example.
'Descent with modification' is Darwin's phrase, natural selection is Darwin's mechanism, and the continuity of germplasm is Weismann's theory, which in fact argued against Lamarck by showing that changes to body cells are not inherited.
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